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The Minolta-35 was launched in the spring of 1947 by Chiyoda Kogaku. It was the first successful new 35mm rangefinder camera with Leica specifications to emerge on the market after World War II that uses the 39mm screw lens-mount .
Minolta XG-7 DLSR 35 mm film camera made in Japan. Minolta continued to offer 35 mm manual focus SLR cameras in its X-370, X-570, and X-700 from 1981, but slowly repositioned its cameras to appeal to a broader market. Minolta decided to abandon the high level of design and parts specifications of its earlier XD/XE line.
Minolta QuickScan 35 (2880) / Minolta QuickScan 35 Plus QS-2800 / QS-35; Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual F-2400 (2882) Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual II AF-2820U (2886) Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual III AF-2840 (2889) Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual IV AF-3200 (2891) Minolta DiMAGE Scan Speed F-2800 (2884) Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi F-3000 (2883-102)
In North America, Minolta marketed the camera and lenses with the Maxxum branding. Until the mid 1990s, A-mount lenses for the North American market were engraved as Maxxum AF ; the rest of the world were branded as AF lenses, including the regions using the Dynax and α branding for the cameras.
The Minolta MAXXUM 7000 (7000 AF in Europe and α-7000 in Japan) 35 mm SLR camera was introduced in February 1985. It was the first camera to feature both integrated autofocus (AF) and motorised film advance, the standard configuration for later amateur and professional single lens reflex cameras.
Hi-Matic was the name of a long-running series of 35 mm cameras made by Minolta.The original Hi-Matic of 1962 was the first Minolta camera to feature automatic exposure and achieved a small degree of fame when a version (the Ansco Autoset) was taken into space by John Glenn in 1962.
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The Dynax/Maxxum/α-9, Minolta's last professional film body, was released in 1998 and started the 5th and final generation of their 35 mm autofocus camera line. The camera is constructed with a zinc and aluminium cast frame covered by SUS304 stainless steel panels, uncommon for cameras, and can tolerate large amounts of abuse at the expense of ...